Increasing interletter spacing facilitates encoding of words

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 332-338

  Perea, Manuel ^a   Gomez, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion model; Letter position coding; Letter spacing; Visual word recognition; Word perception; Word processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858392287     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0214-6     Document Type: Article

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